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#1 2013-05-11 20:30:28

Duca
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Registered: 2009-01-12
Posts: 23

Alcantara - a launcher inspired by dmenu but written in Qt

Greetings Archers,

I'd like to invite you all to try a launcher i have been developing: https://github.com/duca/Alcantara

It is inspired by kde launcher, but it's intended to be fast and lightweigth (and have a graphic interface).

I decided to write it along with the decision to move from gnome/kde to xfce4 because i missed something that Alt-F2 was not enough to satisfy.  Since i have some experience in Qt and had it installed, it was my choice.

If you decide to give it a try, please report bugs and whatever comments you have.

From the README.md

Alcantara

A Qt based launcher similar in spirit to dmenu but graphical.

It features a dynamic search and although Alcantara assumes you often type the first letters of the desired program, you could also be typing a fragment from the middle or end of the name. In this respect it is more advanced than dmenu.

Also it keeps track of opened programs by keeping their id's and my intention is to enable, through dbus, the retrieval of pid's (and names) to be used by taskbars and else.

Last edited by Duca (2013-05-11 20:31:11)

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#2 2013-05-11 23:03:42

askurihin
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Registered: 2012-10-03
Posts: 5

Re: Alcantara - a launcher inspired by dmenu but written in Qt

How to build it? Didn't find any instructions.
Also an aur package would be great.

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#3 2013-05-12 02:03:35

Duca
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Registered: 2009-01-12
Posts: 23

Re: Alcantara - a launcher inspired by dmenu but written in Qt

Thank you for your reply!  It was very amateurish of me.

I just uploaded a  PKGBUILD and updated the README with some build instructions

Hope it helps you out.

Last edited by Duca (2013-05-12 02:04:34)

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